Lavett Ballard

Lavett Ballard is an Artist, Art historian, Curator, and Author. She hold a dual Bachelor’s in Studio Art and Art History with a minor in Museum Studies from Rutgers University, she also has an MFA in Studio Art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Ballard’s art has been commissioned as a cover for Time Magazine special Woman of the Year double edition released March 2020. Among her accolades she is a Yaddo Artist residency recipient for 2020. Been nominated for a Pew Foundation residency and named by Black Art in America as one of the Top 10 Female Emerging Artists to Collect. Ballard’s work has been in film productions and exhibited at galleries and museums nationwide.

Ballard views her art as a re-imagined visual narrative of people of African descent. Her use of imagery reflects social issues affecting primarily Black women’s stories within a historical context. Her current body of work uses collaged photos adorned with paint, oil pastels, and metallic foils. These photos are deconstructed and layered on reclaimed large and small aged wood fences.

 

Exhibition: “Stories My Grandmother Told Me”

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Black Arts Speak Episode 1: Lavett Ballard

This is the first short film from the series Black Arts Speak, produced by Dr. Tanisha Jackson. In this video, the New Jersey-based artist discusses how her summer visits down South to her family farm and listening to her Grandmother's stories about historical events that deeply impacted the African American community, influences her art making process. These experiences inspired the creation of the exhibit, Stories My Grandmother Told Me (2021).

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Adventure
Exhibition Title Wall at CFAC, 2021

Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood

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Jaleel Campbell FEEL That Funk 4
Stories my Grandmother Told Me

36 x 48 x 2
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood

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Lest we not Forget

16 x 20 x 2
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2017

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Jaleethal Dolls (at CFAC), 2019
Legacy

24x 36
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2017

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Jaleethal Dolls: The Bluest Eye, 2019
Growing up in the Shadows

74 x 77
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2017

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Jaleel Campbell Jalethal Mural
Herstory Triptych or Diptych

74 x 77
Installation Mixed Media, 2016

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Jaleethal Doll (Orange), 2019
Still I Rise I

6 x 4
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2017

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Jaleethal Doll (Orange), 2019
More Than Me

6 x 4
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2017

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Jaleethal Doll (Orange), 2019
Brothers in the Mist (installation view)

71 x48
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2018

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Jaleethal Doll (Orange), 2019
Brothers in the Mist

71 x48
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2018

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Jaleethal Doll (Orange), 2019
CFAC Gallery View

11x14
Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood

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Jaleethal Doll (Orange), 2019
We Shall not be Moved (The Bus Rider)

36x40
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2020

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Jaleethal Doll (Orange), 2019
A Dream Deferred

37x40
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2020

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James Baldwin
This Is Me

71 x41
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2020

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James Baldwin
Still Here

71 x53
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2020

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James Baldwin
CFAC Gallery View

Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood

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James Baldwin
CFAC Gallery View

Collage Mixed Media on wood slices, 2020

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James Baldwin
African Violet

12 x16
Collage/ Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020

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Jaleel Campbell FEEL That Funk 4
Watcha Lookin at?

16x12
Collage. Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020

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Jaleel Campbell FEEL That Funk 4
Oh Freedom

11x14
Collage. Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020

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Jaleel Campbell FEEL That Funk 4
CFAC Gallery View

Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood

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Jaleel Campbell FEEL That Funk 4
My Soul says Yes!

30x40
Collage/ Mixed Media on Birchwood Panel, 2020

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James Baldwin
Rise Up!

30x40
Collage/ Mixed Media on Birchwood Panel, 2020

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Jaleel Campbell FEEL That Funk 4
CFAC Gallery View

30x40
Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood, 2020

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Jaleel Campbell FEEL That Funk 4
I am Enough

37x40
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood fencing, 2020

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James Baldwin
The Skin I'm In

30x40
Collaged/ Mixed Media on Hand carved Birchwood Panel, 2020

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James Baldwin
Oya

37x25
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2018

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James Baldwin
Brown Girl Dreaming

68x37
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2020

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Jaleel Campbell FEEL That Funk 4
CFAC Gallery View

Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood

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James Baldwin
Washer Woman

30x24
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2019

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James Baldwin
Your Blues ain't like Mine

48x24
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2019

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James Baldwin
Behind the Curtain

24x36
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2016

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James Baldwin
Wild Seed

24x36
Collage/ Mixed Media on Hand carved Birchwood Panel, 2018

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James Baldwin
How I got Over

24x36
Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood fencing, 2021

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James Baldwin
CFAC Gallery View

Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood

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James Baldwin
Paternal Order

24x36
Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood fencing, 2021

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James Baldwin
I Too

16x12
Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood, 2021

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James Baldwin
Just Breathe

11x13
Collage/Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020

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James Baldwin
My Name is Sandra

16x12
Collage/ Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020

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James Baldwin
My Name is Kiyonna

10x8
Collage/ Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020

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James Baldwin
My Name is Atatianna

16x20
Collage/ Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020

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James Baldwin
Hear my Call

11x14
Collage/ Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020

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James Baldwin
The Inheritance

Installation comprised of Collage/ Mixed Media on Wood Slices from The Quarantine Chronicles, 2021

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James Baldwin
The Inheritance

Installation, 2021

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James Baldwin
Lavett Ballard

For more information about Lavett Ballard visit the following site:

Website: https://www.lavettbeart.com

Lavett Ballard is currently Co-Represented by both :Long Sharp Art Gallery- (Indianapolis, IN)
and; Galerie Myrtis- (Baltimore, MD)

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